Sheffield will always be in state of limbo
I WOULD ask the city's many Labour voters to take a minute and think of what happened under a Labour council and, more terrifying, the last government.
We know it won't make the slightest difference to hard left supporters, but it should, if you care about the future of Sheffield (I'm not counting the union members who care little for anyone but their members).
Favoured estates and areas had millions pumped into them over the years. Have you seen any changes? No. Have the millions created jobs?
No. Are they still 'deprived.' Yes. Why? The Labour council wrote off millions missing from various departments. Now we hear that Sheffield Homes had to write off millions in non-payments of rents. This smacks of incompetence on the part of the people who were in charge. We have all come across staff who couldn't care less and would rather say no than help us. Or the police officers who don't even use basic common sense.
Teachers who use health and safety rules to stifle our children, rather than do the job they are paid to do.
It is much easier to dish out benefits to idle shirkers than to challenge and investigate their claims.
Housing allocation in Sheffield is the biggest mystery since Lord Lucan's disappearance. Who checks the checkers? People with large families are given priority houses. Families with two or three kids have no chance in Sheffield.
Is it true the allocations are 75 per cent priority? If so, it is a disgrace for the hard working families who have to wait for years to get a house. It is despairing to the thousands who can see no way out except having to continue supporting the should-work-but-won't-work, brigade. These shirkers get more by the day and feel it is theirs by right. Labour, both central and local, have made a career from being the idler's champions. How can we justify this stalemate situation?
What defines a deprived area? Is it where these shirkers live?
Labour councillors in the city bleat on about these areas and have done so for years, of how they need help and funding. These councillors should also walk around their wards and advise these people that they now have to learn to stand on their own two feet and support their own families.
How can this deprivation be correct when we read daily of the huge benefits they receive? Some of them must be quite wealthy by now. It is time we all woke up to the fact that while ever we keep returning to the old Labour council policies, Sheffield will remain in limbo.
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